April 2009 – Page 3 – 300 words a day

Sometimes you have to reach out.

Two women were healed. One was a child, one was an adult. One had lost blood, the other had lost life. One was well-off. The other had spent everything. And Jesus healed them both. The child couldn’t speak for herself. She was dead. Her dad, a synagogue leader, a highly spiritual lay person, […]

by Jon Swanson

Sometimes you have to start over.

You are working on a project and things get complicated. There are revisions and modifications. The documentation doesn’t keep up with the adjustments. Someone becomes the keeper of the knowledge and the explanations. Then everyone gets in a hurry and doesn’t care to hear the explanations any more, they just want to have the knowledge. […]

by Jon Swanson

follow me.

Matthew could have made it complicated. Matthew could have made it clear. Matthew is telling the story of his own decision to follow Jesus. He could have provided lots of background about what his life had been like, what his business practices were. He could have provided us with pictures of his heart, his soul, […]

by Jon Swanson

the doors were still locked

Thomas gets beat up by history. He is known by everyone as “doubting Thomas.” No one remembers that he was the disciple who said, “we’ll probably all die, but let’s follow Jesus anyway.” Ho one remembers that the rest of the disciples didn’t believe the women on Easter Sunday. I’ve never noticed, until now, that […]

by Jon Swanson

with friends like these

Have you ever wanted to watch your friends talk about you? To see what they think about you when you aren’t around? That’s pretty scary. Let’s be more encouraging. Have you ever wanted to listen to people that you have taught something, to hear what they learned, what they understood? That’s pretty scary, too. We […]